Hello members,<div><br>The following email is important information about an organization on campus called Project Connect. They need our help, and would great appreciate any help you could give!<div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div>
<div>Alicia Rice</div><div>Sigma Tau Delta Secretary<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bowdoin, Jessica</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JNB014@shsu.edu">JNB014@shsu.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:14 PM<br>Subject: Please Read<br>To: "<a href="mailto:liciabri@gmail.com">liciabri@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:liciabri@gmail.com">liciabri@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>Hello everyone,<br>
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Many of you are either my close friends or professors I have had classes with, and as such, I know that all of you are hard working and supportive in your own right. It is not often that I push any form of charity on others, but I am hoping that some of you will help.<br>
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The organization, Project Connect, is a TRIO program that benefits first generation, non-traditional, and financially needy students. It is the undergraduate version of Mcnair, and their support ranges from free tutoring and graduate seminars to their ever-important lending library. The concept for this library is that students borrow books they cannot afford and return them at the end of the semester for the students in the subsequent semesters. However, as many of us know, the publishing world benefits from creating new editions and revisions which necessitate the constant re-buying of books for classes. Thus, in the past, Project Connect has relied upon a grant which enables them to keep constantly rotating books on their shelves so that the students, who cannot afford the books, may still receive them through the lending library. However, with all the cuts throughout the departments, this grant was readily revoked, and now many of the students in the program dependent on those books (because they need that extra money for childcare or basic necessities) will no longer receive this support.<br>
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What I am asking is this:<br>
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Professors: The sample copies and exam copies you receive (the ones you will not use or are done with) will better benefit these students and the program as a whole if they are given to Project Connect instead of sold to book buyers. Also, if you have editions that are one or two away from the newest and that are near-identical to the newer edition, please allow Project Connect to have them if you can. Novels, anthologies, grammar books, and other books in majors outside English that can still be used in some way can all be donated. I know that this may mean a bit of money given up, but students in this program will use those books for years and save themselves hundreds of dollars, simply because they were donated.<br>
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Students: If you have books from this semester that you would normally sell for the measily $5-15, please just donate them. We are all strapped for cash, but it is better to ensure that your fellow students can receive the education they deserve and do well in their classes by having the proper book.<br>
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Firstly, I will place a box in the faculty lounge, where books can placed, and a box in the front 2nd floor hallway for students to access. If you wish to deliver them yourself, probably at the joy of the director of Project Connect, they are located at TEC339. Kelly Stuckley's email is <a href="mailto:ELC_KGS@shsu.edu">ELC_KGS@shsu.edu</a>, if you directly wish to contact her. She is the director of Project Connect and is one of the most dedicated staff members at SHSU that I know.<br>
I hope that some of you can help. I know I am graduating, but this is important to the students who are still in the program, a program which supported me for many years and played a hand in my own success.<br>
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Jessica Bowdoin</font></div><br></div></div></div>